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Originally Posted by Phil Masters
I’ve never heard of any objection to Bonfire Night apart from safety and animal welfare concerns related to fireworks (which have led to a bit of a switch from people letting off fireworks in their gardens to public displays). Putting a “Guy” (a crude effigy of Guy Fawkes) on the bonfire seems to be less common; I guess that burning humanoid figures isn’t so much to modern tastes. But some places still even burn contemporary unpopular people in effigy, just to be a bit edgy.
I guess if we ever had a resurgence of anti-Catholic prejudice and then a pushback, someone on one side or the other might remember what the original story was about, but as Roger says, these days, you have to be a bit of a history geek to know it. And trying to deprive people of a firework display and an excuse to eat baked potatoes isn’t a memetic project I’d want to tackle.
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Still Transhuman Space is a world of extremists and eccentric ones too. So sane objects needn't be considered.